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GRAND CANON DISTRICT. 



FlG. C. — The Mu-krtu-tu-weap. 



the esplanade below. The curtain-wall is decorated with a lavish dis- 

 play of vertical moldings, and the ridges, eaves and initered angles are 

 fretted with serrated cusps. This ornamentation is suggestive rather 

 than precise, but it is none the less effective. It is repetitive, not sym- 

 metrical. But though exact symmetry is wanting, nature has here 

 brought home to us the truth that symmetry is only one of an infinite 

 range of devices by which beauty can be materialized. 



And finer forms are in the quarry 

 Than ever Angelo evoked. 



Reverting to the twin temple across Little Zion Valley, its upper mass 



